Trick or Treat – 5 Sexy Halloween Cocktails

So, there’s 2 ways to do Halloween.

One of them is to eat sweets, dress up like a Witch and go all out for the tacky side. This is a valid choice, especially if you’re having a big party or going out on the town.

A quiet night in, however, might need a different approach. Halloween CAN be an excuse for a romantic and intimate evening with your loved one, and intimate evenings need sophisticated grown up cocktails. As does pretty much any night in if I have anything to do with it.

So I’ve been hunting down some tasty Halloween cocktails.

LONG HOT NIGHT

Good name, right?

This appears to come out a great orange colour, perfect for Halloween, though I haven’t had chance to try it myself yet.

Let me know if it’s nice!

Ingredients

2 shots bourbon
3 shots pineapple juice
3 shots cranberry juice

Directions

Place 4 or 5 ice cubes in a highball glass.
Pour in bourbon.
stir
Add pineapple juice and cranberry juice.
stir again

BLACK MARTINI

A Martini can’t help but be a bit sexy, right?

Halloween it up by mixing it with a black liqueur for a bit of colour.

If you drink vodka martinis you can also use Blavod vodka for an extra dark drink (Just a side note, Blavod will turn your lips black if you, say, for instance, nick your housemates bottle while you’re at university and then pretend you didn’t. Not that you’d do that though….)

Ingredients

3 shots gin or vodka
1/2 shot blackberry brandy or black raspberry liqueur (Try Chambord if you got one of the free bottles at Fashion Week. I didn’t. Boo)
lemon twist for garnish

Direction

Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake well.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or serve on the rocks in an old-fashioned glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.

DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON

Ernest Hemingway is credited with the invention of this cocktail, and, like the Black Shadow it involves Champagne or other fizzy wine.)

The extra ingredient in this cocktail though, is Absinthe. A drink associated with madness and a certain kind of crazy, creative, debauched lifestyle just has to be part of any Halloween drinks cabinet.

I’ve been buying Sebor Absinthe online since the late 90s and I’ve never found another brand that I like as much.

Ingredients

1 shot Absinthe
Champagne to Top Up

Direction

Pour one shot of Absinthe into a Champagne flute.
Top up with chilled Champagne.

The drink should turn a milky, opalescent colour that is called the “louche”